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More than 80% of consumers can tell the difference between a professional, human translation and translations offered by automated translation tools. This, according to a survey conducted by OHT-Enterprise, a One Hour Translation (the world’s largest...

By Geoff Watts // From Mosaic
One morning this summer I paid a visit to the sole United Nations agency in London. The headquarters of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) sits on the southern bank of the Thames, a short distance upstream from the Houses of Parliament. As I approached, I saw that a...

By Karla Zabludovsky
Newsweek
When Edith Grossman was translating a novel by Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes, she was struggling with how to handle the ubiquitous slang. One day, at lunch with Fuentes, Grossman asked him how he had picked up such a vast repertoire of dirty, vulgar and unheard-of slang.
“He...

Dalya Alberge
The Observer
British readers are devouring foreign fiction in record numbers amid a mini-boom in translated novels, inspired by the success of Scandinavian authors such as Jo Nesbø.
Among a string of high-profile launches, Penguin Classics is soon to publish a collection of Arabic short...

BY PATRICK GILLESPIE
WASHINGTON — NewsObservers.com - It’s a high-stakes, multibillion-dollar industry with tight deadlines, demanding clients and lives at risk. Any miscommunication could cause a deep financial loss or death. Some in the industry work in war zones while others have cozy home...

Suresh Menon - Agency: DNA
I read recently that there are some 60 literary festivals in our country annually. Yet, how many of these dedicate a whole festival or a day of the festival or even a single session to a discussion on that most neglected aspect of literature: translation? We know who wrote One...

1 When did you first read Gabriel García Márquez and what were your impressions?
I first read García Márquez in graduate school. The novel was Cien años de soledad [One Hundred Years of Solitude], and I was overwhelmed. There hasn’t been a novel, before or since, quite like that one.
2 García...